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VOL. 9, ISSUE 6 (2023)
Indigenous Fishing Method and its impact on rural livelihood among Galo Tribe of West Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh, India
Authors
Gumbin Noshi
Abstract
Indigenous fishing is a kind of small scale,
commercial and subsistence fishing practices done by using traditional
techniques such as trapping, nets, local poisoning, rods/line and
various other traditional methods. Various plants and their product are used as
poisons by the practitioners to catch fishes from the rivers and streams. The
methods of using plants as fish poison transmitted from one generation to
another informally and verbally. In fact, Arunachal Pradesh is well
endowed with numerous rivers with good number of ponds, lakes and streams
suitable for fishing. These practices have become source of livelihood and an
important part of the ways of life of the Galo people since time immemorial. In
the past, the Galo’s lived as hunter-gatherer and due to necessity, constantly
on the move. They were mostly associated with fishing as major sources of food
and livelihood for survival. But with the passages of time and advent of
modernization traditional fishing practices among the Galo tribe has been
diminishing slowly as such the dependency on fishes by rural people also
diminishes. As a result, for those who depend on fishing as means of livelihood
and in addition to this, the non-availability of proper documentation and
preservation of their indigenous fishing practices posed major challenges.
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Pages:11-15
How to cite this article:
Gumbin Noshi "Indigenous Fishing Method and its impact on rural livelihood among Galo Tribe of West Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh, India". International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Research, Vol 9, Issue 6, 2023, Pages 11-15
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